Simon Fraser University’s Get Involved website is a one-stop shop for students to find experiential learning opportunities that enable them to develop practical skills and become changemakers in their communities. It’s a platform that the university community uses to promote paid and unpaid opportunities for students to get involved on campus.
Virtual reality (VR)—in many ways—is still very much the new frontier, and while they may not be saddling horses and riding to the next outpost, the tenacious Aussie duo, Jordan and Lee Brighton, took an adventurous track to learning about VR.
For nearly four decades the subatomic physics laboratory, TRIUMF, in Vancouver, has housed a unique facility that uses the short-lived, muon subatomic particle (an elementary particle similar to the electron) as a sensitive magnetic probe in materials, and in studies of chemical reactions.
Ashoka Fellow and Changemaker, Judith Marcuse, has an impressive list of accomplishments and achievements that have led her on the path to earning this title. From academic achievements, including the award of an honorary doctorate from Simon Fraser University in 2000, to her professional accomplishments in founding an organization dedicated to art and social change and becoming a Senior Ashoka Fellow, it’s evident that Dr.
Would you use your appliances more sustainably if you had an inexpensive way to monitor consumption?
Researchers in SFU’s new Computational Sustainability Lab (CSL) are developing practical, accessible, sustainability tools that all consumers can use to incorporate sustainability into their daily lives.
New discoveries in quantum computing and quantum information have the potential to radically transform many aspects of current computing, information and sensing technologies.
An SFU research team studying how Virtual Reality (VR) can help people recover from addiction presented the judges’ grand prize at Stanford University’s Brainstorm VR/AR Innovation Lab competition over the weekend.
Professors Faranak Farzan, Sylvain Moreno and Diane Gromala from SFU Surrey have combined their expertise across the disciplines of engineering, neuroscience, wearable technology, and health technology innovations to address the issue of addiction recovery.
Thanks to RADIUS (RADical Ideas, Useful to Society) and Embark Sustainability's Social Innovation Seed Fund, Woodpickers launched an online shop and developed a manufacturing process that is locally sourced and hand made. Michelle Chen, SFU Bachelor of Environment graduate explains:
What started as a way to help a small client group unite sales and marketing teams is now North America’s largest, dedicated salesforce consulting and application development firm—and one of the continent’s fasting-growing technology companies.
The Embedding Project, a global sustainability initiative founded by Stephanie Bertels, an SFU Beedie School of Business professor, has received a $2.45-million, seven-year Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
